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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
GOLDEN GRAINS

Cheerfulness is grand home virtue.
Great works are accom- plished slowly.
To see the world is to Judge the judges.
We seldom heartily praise those who
do not admire US.
The wise hand does not all the foolish
tongue speaks.
Never refuse kindness that it comes
In your way to do.
Our condition never satisfies us; the
present is always the worst.
Wealth may bring Injuries, but luxur-
les do not always bring happiness.
What is commonly called friendship
even is only little more honor among
rogues.
Grand temples are built of small stones
and great lives are made up of small
events.
Pride is equal in all men; it differs on
ly In the means and manner of showing
itself
If man cannot readily recognize
merit, it is very certain that he has none
himself.
The good we have received form a man
should make Us bear with the ill he does
us.
In great cities we learn to look the
world in the face. We shake hands with
stern realities.
The great high road of human welfare
lies along the old highway of steadfast
well-doing.
It is not enough to possess great quail
ties; we must also have the management
of them.
1t may be far less respectable to be
able to wear fine clothes, than to be able
TO make them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
All hout Wrinkles

wrinkles are as natural to old age as is
full, smooth face to childhood. They
are due mainly to certain shrinkage of
the muscles-a shrinkage which charac-
terIZes more or less the entire system in
the latter period Of life. Now, the human
face, writes doctor in the Youths Com
Panlon, was meant to be the mirror of
the MIND" the visible expression Of
every passion, emotion and Utmost feel
ing. Herein is its chief beauty. Hence,
It's numerous muscles and nerves, where
oy IL Is SO wonderfully adjusted to this
end. But muscles In constant or FREQUENT
exercise increase in volume, strength. and
readiness of action. Hence habits of
thought and feeling became stamped on
the face, and We read so easily the charac-
ter OF the proud, the vain, the deceitful.
and the sensual man, or of the kind. the
calm, the energetic, the frank, the can
did, and the honest man. But there is
nothing like care and worriment to pillow
burrows In the forehead, and these are
badly marring the faces of our American
women. We pass in the streets women OF
thlrth-tve whose foreheads are more
wrlnkled than the brow should be at
seventy. Some of these may have more
cares than others, but they unnecessarily
yield to the tendency to express them in
the face.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
MRS. ARP AND THE SIGNS.
She Doesn't Believe i'm Them. but Has Consid-
cradle Human Nature About Her.

She Doesn't Believe i'm Them. but Has Consid-
cradle Human Nature About Her.
Atlanta Constitution
Mrs. Arp knows all the signs. She does
not believe in them, of course, for they
have fooled her too often, but somehow
when the sign betokens good it seems to
cheer her up, and she sings around more
happily" 1 sneezed this morning most
heartily, and she said: My nose itches and
the game rooster crowed awhile ago on
the front steps. Somehow I can't help
looking for one of the boys. l wouldn't
be surprised if we had one of them to
supper to night" and she has been flying
around all day fixing up things little
better. Poor woman! / am so sorry for
her, and sorry for myself, too. Her older
boys are scattered now, and some Of them
we rarely see. 1t costs money to come,
and time is precious, and business is ex-
acting, and so we have to take comfort
with their letters and try to be content.
1t is hard on the mothers, very hard; and
there should be heaven for the reunion
of families if for nothing more.
But all signs fail in dry weather and wet
weather too, and my opinion is that the
nose knows nothing about it, nor the
rooster either. for the boy didn't come,
and Mrs. Arp has been reading some
magazine stories ever since she washed
the dishes. [ don't believe she is alto
gether out OF hope yet, for little while
ago she said ''hush'' TO the children and
turned her ears towards the front gate as
if she heard something. l wish she was
rich so that she could &C when she pleased
and see her children and take me along
to wait on her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
Heating Railway Cars
Philadelphia Record.
Electrical Review.

In view of the recent railway accidents
and the loss of many valuable lives and
large amounts of property by fire, the
question naturally arises: Can not some
means be devised by which the present
system of heating passenger cars by
means of coal-burning stoves can be
done away with?
Very many devices have been suggest
ed as, for instance, heating with steam
derived from the engine boiler, or from
an independent boiler carried in the bag
gage car. Chemical boilers, by which
heat is generated by the decom position
of substance, or substances, such as
caustic potash and soda; and electric
stoves In which the heat is derived from
q current from primary batteries.
OF the first we have the objection rails
ed that the engine boiler in use is not
sufficient in capacity. and that it is not
expedlent to increase its size, for mechan-
zeal reasons. As to the second. e., in
dependent bOilers-we have the objec
tions:
First, the dead load required to be
moved: and. second, the fact that the
laws of many of the states require that
the heating apparatus of each car shall
rallroading the coupling link had disa-
greeable way of breakin :, and the car
would thus be left by the rest of the train.
and the passengers be in imminent dan
ger of perlshlng before the loss was dis
covered. Again, some accident would re-
qutre the engine to leave the train and po
in search of assistance. At the present
day such conditions are not apt to occur:
but so long as such laws remain in
force they must be considered by the
management of railway companies.
Chemical and electrical devices have
been practically prohibited by reason of
their cost of maintenance. It seems to
US that the storage battery now bids fair
to become practically successful, ana cap
able of furnishing considerable current
at low cost, that some of our ingenious
electrical friends ought to be able to de-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
ODD ITEMS.

The newest craze in New York City is
far white furniture.
An Ontario firm is shipping 100000
barrels OF -four to Newfoundland.
In Cali, CAL, all the high-sc.ool girls
play ball with the young men.
A Polk coUnty (Ga.) man is living
pleasantly with his eighth wife.
A popular Silence Monthly writer says
monkeys have conversation.
A Louisiana, Mo-, man had the hic-
coughs for fourteen consecutive days.
Lawn tennis played doors is a fash
ionable game in New York this winter.
United States Senator Ransom's wife
fitted each of her six sons for college.
The panther that was shot near Peoria
last week turns out to have been dog.
Professor Hughes says a silk ribbon is
better lightning conductor than me-
tallic rod.
In Germany the park statues are en-
veioped in wrappers during the winter.
A Cedar Springs, Mich, boy has col
lection of $50 different kinds of tin tags
from plug tobacco.
York state judge is wrestling with
the question whether Matching eggs is
manufacturing chickens.
The largest and most successful steam
laundry in Chico, CAL, is owned and run
by company of boys and girls.
At Princeton prize of $1,000 is given
to that member of the sophomore class
who passes the best examination in the
classics.
letter addressed to a party in
Father, Mich.," was sent to post office
expert, and he forwarded it to Paw Paw,
Mich. He guessed right.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
Brother Gardner on Late Member.
Detroit Free Press.

at am my painful duty to inform dis
club dat Brudder Arpustus Senkins has
passed from airth away" said Brother
Gardner when the triangle had ceased to
toll. He was an honorary member of
dis club libin' in de Staff of North Caro-
liny, an he was only fifteen cents behind
IN his dues
at kin not be said of Arbustus that he
was either a statesman, poet, philosopher
philanthropist or scholar. He was sim
ply an cherry day man. who did not shrink
when he got wet"
Gas citizen of de United Stats he did
not go braggin' aroun' about our bein' de
greatest nashun on aIrth, but he had a
hickory club laid away fur any coun-
try which might knock de chip off our
shoulder
LAS an elector, he went to de polls cherry
time dar was chance to vote, an some
times when deir wasn't, an if he flit his
ticket it was bekase he was so deeply
interested in de matter OF honest guv'-
ment.
''As laborer ne was worthy of his hire
When he wasn't workin' he was thinkin'
fur de benefit oh his boss. If de boss
didn't know about dis it was his own
fault"
''As naybur he neber borrowed coffee
an sugar without making a mark on
de tin cup, so he could return good meas
ure.
'As a member of de community where
he dwelt ne upheld de law in day time an
stole watermelons under kiver of darkness
thereby settin' a good example fur de
young.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
Curious Life Poem.

Mr. II. a. Demlng, OF San francisco,
is said to have occupied a year in hunt
ing up and fitting together the following
thirty eight English poems. The names
Of the authors are given below:
Why all this toll for triumphs of an
hour:
2-Life's short summer man flow
BY turns we catch the vital breath,
and die
4-The cradle and the tomb, alas. so
nigh.
5-To be is better far than not to
be.
6-Though all mans life may seem a
tragedy:
But life cares speak when mighty
cares ara dumb.
S-The bottom is but shallew whence
they come
9-Your fate is but the common fate
of all:
1O-Uumingled joys here to no man be-
fall.
11-Nature to each allots his proper
sphere.
12-Fortune makes folly her peculiar
care.
13-Custom does often reason over
rule,
14-And throws cruel cunshine on
fool.
15-Live well, how long Or short, per
NIT to heaven.
17-Sin may be clasped SO close we
cannot sec its face
18-Vile intercourse where virtue has
not place;
19-Then keep each passion down,
however dear,
2O-Thou pendulum betwixt a smile
81 Her sensual snares, let faithless
pleasure lay
22-With craft and skill to ruin and
betray;
"a Soar not too high to fall, but
stoop to rise.
25-We masters grow of all that we
dispise.
27-Riches have wings and grandeur is
a dream.
2S-Tho path of glory leads but to the
grave
29-What is ambition? tits but gloI-
ious cheat.
3O-Only destructive to the brave and
great.
31-What's all the guady glitter of a
crown?
% Tho ~ray-+n bliss lies not ON hads
or down.
33-How long we live not years but
actions. tell:
34-That man lives twice that lives the
first life well.
35-Make then, while yet ye may, your
God your friend.
36-Whom Christians worship, yet not
comprehend,
37-The trust that's given guard and
to yourself be JUST
3S-For live we how we can, yet die We
must
1. Young,2. DIR. johnson, 8. Pope,
4. Prior, 5. Sewell, 6. Spenser, 7.
Daniel, s. Sir Walter Raleigh, 8. Long
fellow, 10. Southweil, IL. Congrever,
II. Churchill, Is. Rochester, IA. Arm
strong, Is. Milton, 16. Baily,
II. Trench, IS. Somerville, 10.
Thomson, 20. Byron, q. Smolleft, %.
Crabbe, %. Massinger, "a. Cowley, 25.
Boattie, 26. Cowper, 81. Sir Walter
Davenhant, %. Gray, 20. Willie, 80. Ad.
Olson, 81. Dryden, so. Francis Quarles,
33. Watkins, 81. Herrick, 35. William
Mason, &c. Hill, 81. Dana, 3S, Shakes
peare.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24

''As church member he prayed soft
an he was half a line behind all de rest in
singing.
SIN case that he happened to be cotch-
ed wild a ham belongin' to somebody else
no refeckshuns could be cast on de
church.
''As husband he bossed de cabin, an
as father he brung his chillen up to
fear de law and to respece de ole aige.
1--WE shall hang do usual emblem of
mourning on de outer doah, an we shall
feel bit sorry that a fair to medium
man has passed away. Dat will be all.
We shan't pass no resolutions to send to
his wife who knowed him better dan any
bodyn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24

The Milwaukee, Lake Shore Dc Western
Railway has been we'll named the Fishing
and Hunting Line of Wisconsin, passing,
as it does, through thousands of acres of
but partially explored woods and within
easy reaching distance of lakes and
streams that have never been fshed by
white men. all we'll stocked with the game
fish for which Northern Wisconsin waters
are noted. The woods abound with game;
deer bear, wolf, mink, beaver, pheasant,
and other game are quite plentiful.
THE ONLY LINE
From Milwaukee to the new Iron Mining
District in Wisconsin and Michigan-Go-
gebic, Wakefield Bcssemer, IrOnwood and
Hurley.
Direct line to ASHLAND and beyond.
Sleeping cars between ASHLAND, MIL
WAUKEE and CHICAGO.
The GUIDE Book, and other descriptive
matter, containing full information, maps
and engravings of the country traversed
by the line, will be sent on application to
the General Passenger Agent.
CHAs. A. COLE, Gen. Agent, 105 Wash
ington ST., Chicago.
Chicago Depot, Cor. Wells and Kinzie
Sts., &C. d N. w. R'y.
HE WHITCOMB, CHAS. V. McKINLAY
Gen1 Manager. Gen'i Pass Agent,
MILWAUKEE,. WIS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24

Mr.. Whittier's death is being FASTENED
by the insatiate horde of autograph
fiends and ambitious poets who send their
manuscripts to be reviewed by the kind
hearted bard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24

The streams penetrating the Gogebit
iron range near the south shore of Lake
Superior, are so black with discoloratior
from the ore that fish cannot live in them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24

There is a newspaper in Dakota for
every 1,200 population.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24

Owns and operates nearly $500 miles Of thor
cughly equipped road in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Missouri, Minnesota and Dakota
It is the Best Direct Route be-
tween all principal points in the
Northwest, Southwest and Far
West.
FOR maps, time tables. rates OF passage and
IT lght, etc apply 70 the nearest station agent Of
ne CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, & N. PAU RAILWAY,
or TO any Railroad Akvas any where IA tho
World
X KILLER, A. " CARPENrM
General manager. Gen. Pass aud Tiki. ACT
:. r. TUCKER, GEO. II. HTArYOHo
Asst Gen. Nan. Asst Gen Pass and 1kt. AIT
MILWAUKEE, wpoenss~.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24

t2Y-For notices in reference 10 SBeciaI E1cur-
Ssns. changes Of time, and other items Of inter.
- IL Connection With the Ck1cA0s MIIvAvxn
columns Of this paper
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
JOB DEPARTM ENT

We have in this department a complete line
Of job Material and Type for doing frst-class
Job work on short notice and at the lowest
living prices. We do all kinds of Pamphlet
and Law Brief work known to the trade.
Call in and get prices.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-10-07

Senator Charles D. Farwell, of Illinois,
has been making journey to Alaska.
His party went to the head of the Dyra,
which is forty miles farther north than
tourists have been before. Concerning
the Indians In Alaska Territory, Senator
Farwell said to an Inter Ocean repre-
sentative 1.-The Indians In that country
seem anxious to work; they do not want
arms Or rations, but are self sustaining,
as they say. What should be done for
them by the Government, in my judg-
ment, is to teach them the English Ian
guage and such trades as they can work
at in that country, namely, carpentry,
shoemaking, working in iron and other
things which can be utilized in Alaska.
They are good traders, and, as l said be-
fore, are capable of taking care of them
selves without any Government rations."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-10-07

A writer in the New York Commercial,
AdrertiSer says: "a weird interest at,
taches to mummies, and their coming to
life, or exciting an occult influence when
resurrected in one day, has furnished the
foundation for several romances. Here
is prosac and true story, with the scene
laid in matter Of fact New York, which
goes far to relieve the romancers from the
charge of romancing. Some time ago
Mcssrs. Tiffany & Co. received an in.
voice of mummics' eyes. l do not go SO
far as to say that they were the actual
eyes of leading citizens of Thebes and
Memphis, but they were taken from the
eye-sockets of mummies exhumed from
Egyptian tombs. They may have been
the actual eyes reduced to the hardness
OF stone by the process of embalming, OF
they may have been only false eyes
like those used by modern taxider.
mlsts in perpetuating the life.
semblance of some pet Fido OF
Tabby. At all events they were dubbed
mummy eyes," and the jewelers. set
about getting them ready for the market.
They were amber colored, opaque and
lustreless. 1t was thought best to polish
them before setting, and workman was
set at the task. Before he had been long
at the work he became i'll Of a fever and
another man was put on the job. He too
became i'll Of the same kind of fever
before he hal spent much time on the
job, and three or four other workmen who
succeeded him were taken with the same
symptoms and suffered similar illness,
although Others, working on other jobs
amid the same surroundings and under
the same conditions, were enjoying their
usua! good health. Here is an excellent
opportunity for the Society for Psychical
Research. Were these illnesses simply
a coincidence, or did the mummy eyes
really exert soMe occult aud baneful
power for their own protection.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-10-07

A traTeler who has visited the various
States and Territories Of Mexico presents
a condensed view of his observations.
Nothing could be more sententious and
epigrammatic than the style in which the
people of the several States are described.
He found in Yucatan, farmers Vera
Cruz, merchants and travellers; Tabasco,
plantation owners; Federal District, poll
ticians and soldiers; Tlaxcala, ignorant
people; Chiapas, Indians; Oaxaca, fanat-
les; Durango, mule drivers; Queretaro,
priests; Morelos, fruit farmers; Guanaju-
ato, liberals; San Luis Polosi, wealthy
people; Mexico, conservatives; Tamauli.
pas, sick people; chihuahua, savages !
Jalisco, potters; Zacatecas, miners; Nue.
va Leon, Yankees; Lower California, ad.
venturers; Colima, Germans; Aguascali.
entes, Government clerks; Sinaloa, fish
ermen; Guerrero, negroes; Sonora, horse.
men; Coahuila, poor people; Topic,
mountaineers; Hidalgo, Protestants and
English.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-10-07
Made Drunk BY Tobacco.

A Traveller in Palestine records his OBJ
servation that the Arabs of the Syrian
Desert are extraordinarily susceptible to
tobacco. A few whi!fs made them giddy
ana gave them headache; even cigar
cite was too much for them. They use
for smoking the dried leaves of common
plant belonging to the gems Hyoscyamus,
an.l called by the Arabs "Sekharan,"
which has feshy leaves and purple flow
ers. The smoking of the dried leaves
produce kind of intoxication or de-
Iirum. 1t is nearly allied to the man
ara3ora or mandrake, plant which has
magic virtues, in the opinion of the old
herbalists, and Which is itself common
in the southern parts of Judea.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-10-07

Alta recent meeting held in Alexandria,
Virginia, to further the project to build
a grand avenue from Washington to
Mount Vernon, it was explained that the
proposed avenue would run for two
miles through the Arlington property,
and that it was expected that the Govern
ment would construct at least that
portion. The various states would be
asked to send trees to be planted in the
parking along the borders of Mount
Vernon avenue, and it is hoped that the
thirteen original States would be suf1i.
ciently interested to place in life form,
in bronze or marble, the signers of the
Declaration or Independence.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-10-07
INCREDIBLE BRUTALITY.
A Man SAID 10 be I'm Boston CommiIE
Ter ibie Crime.

MAN Sad To be I'm Boston CommttG
Ter ibie Crime.
a shocking case q brutality has been
brought to the attention o. the Newark On.
j. police, IN the treatment received by Mrs.
William Mclaughlin at the hands OF her
husband and ths latter's brother-in-law and
wife. Mr. Mclaughlin deserted his wife IN
Boston and went TO Newark. He took UP his
residence with Mrs. Tobin, his sister, to
whom he stated that his wife had recently
died. Three weeks ago the wife appeared
in Newark, accompanied by her
2-year-old girl baby, and upon
presenting herself at the house OF
her sister-in-law was unceremoniOusiy
thrown into the street. Mrs. Mclaughlin,
who was in exceedingly destitude clrcuIn-
stances. engaged a roo N the tenement
house aC the Tsar of 81 Howard street and In
n very short time discovered the fact that
her husband was living with a young
woman named Mary Fitzgerald, who resid-
ed with the To5in family The hap less
woman was about to become a mother and
she applied to Lieut. Ward OF the first pre-
ciHct for help. The lieutenant took her case
to the overs ers OF the poor, who made out
the City Hospital. But Mrs. McLaugh-
lin refused to go 20 the hospital, in
the belief that the birth of her infant would
win back her husband. She was handed "a
letter rostmarked Staten Island, and evident
" intended for her husband 1t was from the
Fitzgerald woman, who had secured employ
ment on the island. The letter requested
Mclaughlin to visit her at her new home.
With letter in hand Mrs. Mclaughlin went
to tcr sister-in-law's house and showed it to
her. Mclaughlin flew into q towering rage,
and, seizing tho woman by the throat, struck
her a blow with his fist and knocked her down.
His brother-in-law, Edward Tobin, and the
latter's wife, rushed into the hall and pushed
the woman into the yard, butting her head
against the fence as they did so. The yard
was dei1god with mud and water, and for
several hours the poor creature wandered
about in the water, suffering the throes of
labor. At last she made her way into the
hallway again, and shrielled for her husband.
Aroused by the cries, the occupants of the
upper floors hurried down stairs in time to
see Mclaughlin and the Tobins kicking the
womar, WHO lay prostrato upon the hall
floor. Rushing to the street, they called the
police but before the latter arrived the
woman had given bfrtii to male child. To
bin and his wife disappeared, but McLaugh-
lin was arrested. He was held to await the
result of his wlfe's injuries.